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In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.

A family of four - mother, father, and two boys - move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: The future seems limitless.

It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.

My Struggle: Book One introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intensely, irresistibly readable.

My Struggle introduces American listeners to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that is intense and irresistible to hear. Unafraid of the big issues - death, love, art, fear - and yet committed to the intimate details of life as it is lived, My Struggle is an essential work of contemporary literature.

In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a schoolteacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.

As a 19-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published.

Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the 17th century.

The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short, vividly descriptive essays with emotionally raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father.

Spring is a deeply moving novel about family, our everyday lives, our joys and our struggles. Spring follows a father and his newborn daughter through one day in April, from sunrise to sunset. A day filled with everyday routine, the beginnings of life and its light, but also its deep struggles and its darkness.

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists, including Anselm Kiefer, for whom Munch's legacy looms large. Bringing together art history, biography, and memoir, Knausgaard tells a passionate, freewheeling, and pensive story about not just one of history's most significant painters, but the very meaning of choosing the artist's life, as he himself has done.

In Inadvertent, internationally best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, as well as his creative development and his struggles. But this audiobook is more than a window into the writer's frame of mind. It's also a glimmering meditation on literature and creativity - on its limitations and its freedoms.

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter.

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the precision and mesmerizing intensity that have become his trademark.

Teil 3 der fulminanten Morgenstern- Reihe vom literarischen Weltstar und SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Karl Ove Knausgård. Die neunzehnjährige Line verliebt sich in Valdemar, den Frontmann der sagenumwobenen Band Das Urteil, und wird in eine geheime, faszinierende und beängstigende Welt hineingezogen. Der Polizist Geir ermittelt in einem makabren Dreifachmord, aber über die Theorie, die er am Ende aufstellt, kann er mit niemandem sprechen.

Et barn skal fødes. Og en far sætter sig ned for at skrive til det. Han vil vise barnet, hvad der venter det, den myriade af fænomener og materie, dyr og mennesker, som vi kalder verden. Han skriver om månen og om tøjdyr, om sne og om tandbørster, om hjernen og om halvfjerdserne, mens barnet vokser i mørket. "Om vinteren" er andet bind af fire i en personlig encyklopædi om den nære virkelighed, skrevet af en far til hans ufødte barn. Karl Ove Knausgård (f. 1968) debuterede som forfatter i 1998.

En kvinde er flyttet tilbage til sit barndomshjem for at passe sin svagelige mor. Morens stemme er næsten forsvundet, benene kan ikke bære hende længere, men alligevel udgår der en voldsom kraft fra hende. En dag kommer kvindens datter uventet på besøg. Hun bærer på et mørke, og alt ændrer sig. "Fuglene under himlen" er en fortælling om tre generationer af kvinder og er en udlægning af en moderne Solveig fra "Peer Gynt". Teksten danner desuden forlæg for den musikalske forestilling "Venter", opført i Bergen og København foråret 2019.

I den selvbiografiske roman "Min Kamp" beskriver forfatteren Karl Ove Knausgård sin kamp for at komme overens med livet, sig selv, sine litterære ambitioner og de mennersker, han har omkring sig. I romanen fortæller forfatteren om sit forhold til sin far og faderens død.

"Intet væsentligt i det menneskelige har forandret sig siden bibelsk tid. Vi bliver født, vi elsker og hader, vi dør. Men det arkaiske ved os og det vi gør, bliver ligesom suget op i hverdagen, i den samtidskultur vi har skabt og udgør, hvor virkeligheden er horisontal, og det vertikale kun undtagelsesvis er muligt at få et glimt af og erkende. Egentlig skal man bare kaste et blik op for at få et greb om det, for der hænger solen og brænder, og det er den samme sol, der brændte for Abraham og Isak, Odysseus og Aeneas."